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building burned ashes, etc., were found, and the first building of 

 1138 can be clearly traced; then 1158, 1318, 1383, 1399, 1460, 

 and 1513. In all these years the castle had either been rebuilt 

 or very extensively repaired. 



The company both before and after the assemblage at the 

 Castle visited Mr Scott's residence, where he has preserved 

 several objects of antiquity picked from among the ruins or 

 found in the neighbourhood. There were several iron and stone 

 bullets of various sizes which had been either embedded in the 

 castle or around its walls ; a few dressed sandstones with quatre- 

 foil ornamentation. On one stone this was repeated thrice as if 

 it had been some corner decoration. Three creeing troughs 

 made from a reddish sandstone, had been got out of the hill 

 face — one much worn, a second not used, of a clumsy shape, the 

 picking in the interior fresh ; a third had only a shallow con- 

 cavity, as if the upper portion had split and fallen off. There 

 were several coins mostly modern, and a Nuremberg token. 

 Subsequently the party assembled on the ground to the west 

 of the castle, and were photographed by Mr Gibson, Coldstream. 



The Rev. Peter Mearns made a few remarks on the previous 

 visits of the Club to Wark and its neighbourhood. He then 

 conducted the party to view the Kaiin and explained its structure. 

 At the' west end of the Kaim there is a small triangular grave- 

 yard, in which has been a chapel. The place is called the Gilly's 

 Nick, a name which some suppose is a corruption of St. Giles. 

 On the western corner of the graveyard near the enclosing wall 

 is a medieval flat grave cover, lying due E. and W., with a large 

 incised plain Latin cross on it, and a sword and dagger on either 

 side of the cross. The Rev. Robert Paul, F.S.A. Scot., Dollar, 

 who has sent me a drawing of it, thought he made out the letters 

 A.M. at the top of the cross. The slab is 5 feet 8 inches long, 

 by a breadth of 2 feet 10 inches. The cross is 3 feet 4 inches 

 long by 5^ inches in breadth ; the sword is on the N. side, and 

 is 3 feet 2 inches long ; the dagger on the S. side is 1 foot long. 

 They are both cross-handled. The dimensions and position of 

 the slab do not quite coincide with Mr Blair's account of it, see 

 Proc. Soc. of Antiq. Newcastle, vol. iv., p. 274. Mr Blair did 

 not see the daggers nor the lettering. A full description of the 

 stone as seen by the Club on July 30, 1863, may be found in the 

 Border Magazine, p. 187. The only plant picked up was Black 

 Horehound, Mr Scott said his mother had used it for colds. 



